Moebius 'Forty Days in the Desert'

The biblical forty days in the desert? Not exactly. This is an imaginative masterpiece from Moebius (Jean Giraud) consisting of forty panels of the fantastic with little narrative structure and each panel purporting to be a daily vision. Strange evocative images of improbable constructs, flying angels, impossible creatures, lightly-threading creatures which barely appear human that float above the surface of the shimmering sands appear in panel after panel. This is a sublime piece of imaginative work. I could spend hours just glancing at the panels. I had once met Moebius in Northern California in my university sometime in the late eighties and this unassuming artist had said that he was influenced by dreams.